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CBC News: 2026 will likely be among the hottest on record: Environment Canada

Common Dreams: Investigation Demanded as ICE Reports Third Death at Texas Detention Center in 44 Days

Common Dreams: Provoking War Over Greenland, Trump Warns Nobel Snub Ends Reason to ‘Think Purely of Peace’

CTV News: Canada’s immigration system is in crisis, lawyers’ association says

France 24: Syrian govt, Kurdish SDF trade accusations over ceasefire violations, IS group prisoners

Mediaite: Stephen Miller Says MN Authorities Ordered to ‘Stand Down and Surrender’ to Federal Officers as Anti-ICE Protests Intensify

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• All officers deny misconduct as public hearing into death of Myles Gray begins

• Canada Inflation Ticks Up to 2.4% on Base Effects as Core Eases

• Carney still mulling ‘Board of Peace’ seat despite Trump’s invitation to Putin

• Court strikes down coal challenge in Saskatchewan

• Layoff notices sent to thousands of federal government workers

• Man guilty of trafficking, assaulting 10 vulnerable women released after he was subject to Maplehurst jail ‘torture’

• Neqotkuk chief describes man killed by RCMP as friend to many in First Nation community

• Ontario Liberals set to make John Fraser interim leader and promise details of leadership race by Feb. 9

• Telus delivers voluntary severance package ‘gut punch’ to workers

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USA news:

• DOJ civil rights chief blasts Don Lemon for covering anti-ICE protest inside church, vows charges against protesters

• Indiana: Judge, wife in stable condition after being shot in Lafayette

• ‘It was terrifying.’ Driver describes pileup involving about 100 vehicles on I-196

• Judge refuses to block new DHS policy limiting Congress members’ access to ICE facilities

• New Hampshire bishop warns after ICE shooting that a 'new era of martyrdom' is upon us

• Southern Cities Be On Alert, Storm System Could Bring Winter Weather Late Week And Into The Weekend

• Study debunks Trump claims, shows no link between acetaminophen and autism

• Trump’s EPA places a zero-dollar value on human life and health

• 'Unchecked Corruption': First US Sale of Venezuelan Oil Goes to Company of Trump Megadonor

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World News

• After 130 Days in Israeli Military Prison, Conscientious Objector Says He’d Refuse IDF Service Again

• Almost 7 million people threatened by deadly Australian bushfires, according to new climate report

• Colombian paramilitary-turned-peace-envoy sentenced over atrocities

• Concerns grow over enforced disappearance of Palestinian journalists

• Guatemala declares emergency after prison riots & police officers’ killings

• Indonesia sues 6 companies over alleged links to deadly floods & landslides

• Israel launches large-scale military operation in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron

• Japan PM Takaichi says to dissolve lower house on Fri. for Feb. 8 election

• Left-leaning Bulgarian President Rumen Radev says he is stepping down

• New charges against son of Norway princess

• 'Secret prisons' run by UAE discovered in Hadhramaut: Yemeni gov.

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What I’m Reading

• Greenland and Irrational Responses to the Crisis of Capital Accumulation

• No, Measles Doesn’t Cure Cancer

• Pushing Back on Anti-Cuba Propaganda

• The Big Secret: US Police Kill 3,000 Americans A Year

• The Last Election

• Trump’s Xenophobic Crackdown Will Destroy Labour